For the showing the meaning of this we must refer to the story of the Kings, Answ. for though you have this Prophecy of Hosea in your books placed in a great distance from the book of the Kings, yet this Prophet and so others did prophesy in the time of the Kings, and therefore the history of the Kings will much help to understand the meaning of the Prophecy. First then for Ephraims beginning to send to the Assyrian and to King Jareb, you have it in the 2 King. 15.19.1 There you shall read that Menahem who was King of the ten Tribes, gave Pull that was King of Assyria a thousand talents of silver, ⟨p. 490⟩that his hand might be with him, to confirm the Kingdom in his hand. Mark, that his hand might be with him to confirm the Kingdom; It seems this King that was the King of Israel, he saw his Kingdom to be in a crazy condition, he saw his sickness and his wound, therefore he sends to the King of Assyria whose name was Pull, and gave him a thousand talents of silver that he might confirm the Kingdom in his hand; and in the 20. verse, you shall find that the Subject was fain to pay for it, he exacted the money (saith the text) of all the mighty men of wealth in Israel.2 Oh what things do Subjects suffer many times for the satisfying the humours of those that are above them: And in 2 King. 17.4. you shall find that Hoshea another King of Israel, he sent messengers to So King of Egypt to help him. And for that which is named here, Jareb, 3I find most to understand it to be but the very §1same. Some say that Jareb was a principal City in Assyria; §2And others say that it was a special name of the Kings of Assyria: §3But others (and that very likely to be true) they take the word appellatively, according to the signification of the word and do not make it the proper name of any man, but a word of appellation, according to the signification of it; For Jareb signifies Desensorem, the defender, or avenger: Therefore when as Gideons father spake to the people concerning his sons casting down the Altar of Baal and cutting down the Grove that was by it, saith he, Will you plead for Baal, will you save him? if he be a god let him plead for himself: and thereupon they called Gideons name Jerub-baal, the same word that is here. So that Jareb, signifies a defender or an avenger. So that they sent to the King of Assyria as to one that should be a defender or an avenger of them:
For the shewing the meaning of this we must refer to the story of the Kings, Answ. for though you have this Prophesie of Hosea in your books placed in a great distance from the book of the Kings, yet this Prophet and so others did prophesie in the time of the Kings, and therefore the history of the Kings will much help to understand the meaning of the Prophesie. First then for Ephraims beginning to send to the Assyrian and to King Jareb, you have it in the 2 King. 15.19.1 There you shall reade that Menahem who was King of the ten Tribes, gave Pul that was King of Assyria a thousand talents of silver, ⟨p. 490⟩that his hand might be with him, to confirme the Kingdom in his hand. Mark, that his hand might be with him to confirm the Kingdom; It seems this King that was the King of Israel, he saw his Kingdom to be in a crazy condition, he saw his sickness and his wound, therefore he sends to the King of Assyria whose name was Pul, and gave him a thousand talents of silver that he might confirm the Kingdom in his hand; and in the 20. verse, you shall find that the Subject was fain to pay for it, he exacted the money (saith the text) of all the mighty men of wealth in Israel.2 Oh what things do Subjects suffer many times for the satisfying the humors of those that are above them: And in 2 King. 17.4. you shall find that Hoshea another King of Israel, he sent messengers to So King of Egypt to help him. And for that which is named here, Jareb, 3I find most to understand it to be but the very §1same. Some say that Jareb was a principal City in Assyria; §2And others say that it was a special name of the Kings of Assyria: §3But others (and that very likely to be true) they take the word appellatively, according to the signification of the word and do not make it the proper name of any man, but a word of appellation, according to the signification of it; For Jareb signifies Desensorem, the defender, or avenger: Therefore when as Gideons father spake to the people concerning his sons casting down the Altar of Baal and cutting down the Grove that was by it, saith he, Will you plead for Baal, will you save him? if he be a god let him plead for himself: and thereupon they called Gideons name Jerub-baal, the same word that is here. So that Jareb, signifies a defender or an avenger. So that they sent to the King of Assyria as to one that should be a defender or an avenger of them:
- 1When they sent to king Jareb.
- 2Subjects suffer for Princes lusts.
- 3Jareb
